Sculpture by Donald Judd

By Dan Licht (@thedvl)

Barebones, simple, exclusive. These are all words that spring to mind when thinking of minimal design. Minimalism has been around for quite some time. The ability to use just what is needed and nothing more. It’s no wonder that it has been highly utilized in interactive design. After all, the requirements of designing for the web have always been built on a foundation of limits. Back in the ’90s we were restricted to only 216 colors and minuscule file sizes. But minimal interactive design is alive and well. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

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By Alejandro Gomez (@zemogalejo)

How would you build a great product that responds to the rapidly changing needs of your customers and the market? Would you take your time, plan every detail meticulously and wait till all portions of the project were finished before you began testing? Or would you map out your goals, build individual parts of the project first, and constantly adapt your build to react to problems or changes in the environment that occurred while you were completing your development?

If you were a 14 year old kid impatiently waiting for a video to download, you would choose the second option. After all it’s the guiding principal behind BitTorrent. And surprisingly, if you were a best practices digital developer like Zemoga, you would choose the second option as well.

While perpetual Beta has become a commonly accepted practice in the digital world (think of how many years Google labeled Gmail with that status), the idea that projects wouldn’t be built as a wholly formed entity and then tested for quality and performance is a fairly new one. But as our industry has learned more about building products to ever tighter deadlines, an “agile process” has often been identified as the best practice for creating materials. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)

How do you build digital projects that make your client go “Wow” every time? At Zemoga, the WOW is where we start.

Not following me? WOW stands for “Web Opportunity Workshop”, our name for what is commonly known as a discovery session. The discovery session is a key component in any best practices Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

Are you tired of saving information for the web in your computer and organizing it? Even if you work with Delicious or any bookmark application, can you never find what your looking for?
Maybe you are the type of person who has a  photographic memory. If that is the case we definitely envy you.

The use of a box is related Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

Photoshop(PS) has long been the default tool for creative professionals working in the digital space. As the name suggests it was originally created for photo manipulation, but as the needs arouse designers started to use it for other purposes. In this series of articles we will be looking at one of PS’s more utilitarian features… Actions. Actions can enable a designer to greatly speed up their productivity and give them a reusable set of tools at a keystrokes reach. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

Simple sketches are often more compelling than technically adept Power Point slides.

The book is broken up into four sections and two technical appendices. Interspersed with the text are countless line drawings to be used as reference. Ironically, as the reader begins to accept the central thesis of the book, it actually becomes quite difficult to read through the text, pause Read More-->ive design is alive and well.